Jerome v. Bigelow
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Erasttjs S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by the appellant against the appellee, for an injunction to restrain the appellee from violating an agreement relating to the practice of medicine, which is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The bill was dismissed, and the cause brought to this court by appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
This bill was for an injunction and relief. The parties are physicians, and were practicing their profession as specialists in the city of Chicago.
The decision of the case turns upon-the construction that shall be given to the contract'of the 10th of May, 1870, and the supplemental agreement.
The substance of the agreement is, that appellant should take.possession of the office theretofore occupied by appellee, with everything belonging to it, and by the express terms of the contract, he was authorized and licensed to carry on and conduct the business of a doctor of medicine in the special…
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